0 Design: Concurrent editing
Nick O'Leary edited this page 2016-07-26 12:56:54 +01:00

Target: 15 + beyond

If you have the editor open and new flows are deployed from another location (ie a co-worker deploys their changes), when you deploy your changes the previous changes are lost.

The editor should:

  • warn if the flows are open in another editor (use number of comms connections to determine)
  • notify when new flows are deployed (inc when done via the flow add/remove api)
  • (longer term) automatically load the new flow into the editor - with a scheme for resolving conflicts

With the addition of Version Control of flows, each version of flow will now have an associated ID.

The editor will know the ID of flows it loaded. When it does a deploy, it will include that ID in the request. If the ID does not match the ID of the flows in the runtime, the request will be rejected with a well-defined response. The editor can then prompt the user to confirm the deploy. If the user confirms, the http POST is resent with an additional flag set confirm the action.

TODO

  • define the changes to the /flows api to support this flow
  • design UI dialog for the prompt